PROTEIN shakes used to be favored mainly by muscle heads, avid strength trainers who were looking to add bulk. But endurance athletes have discovered the benefit of ingesting protein along with carbohydrates after a challenging workout. In response, several new ready-to-drink shakes have hit the...

TO help melt the pounds away, April Rosenberg and her friend Diann Rook go food shopping every two to three weeks. Ms. Rosenberg drives from her home in East Northport and Ms. Rook from Dix Hills. But they don't meet at the supermarket; neither are salad bars on the agenda. To satisfy their cravings...

LAST June, while on duty for the Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan, Police Officer Joseph Lozupone was suddenly overcome with agonizing pain and rushed to the emergency room at New York Weill Cornell Center. ''It felt like someone was sticking a knife in my back and in my side,'' said Officer...

Marley is a friendly orange tabby on a weight loss plan. About a year ago he was up to 22 pounds 2 ounces, his personal best, or largest, at any rate. Now, after nine months on a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet that could have been invented by Dr. Atkins, he's down to 21 pounds 3 ounces. His...

The Atkins diet gained a modicum of respectability this month when scientists reported that two clinical trials found the high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet did not cause disastrous increases in serum cholesterol and even reduced one or two cardiac risk factors. The studies, reported...

Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet guru who died last month from head injuries suffered in a fall, would have enjoyed reading last week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. It carried two independent studies that enhanced the credibility of his controversial low carbohydrate, high fat, high...

People who have mild kidney failure may do better if they refrain from diets that are high in animal protein, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in Annals of Internal Medicine, scientists said it appeared that high concentrations of protein, and especially protein from nondairy sources, were...

THE continuing battle between diet gurus promoting a low-fat, high-fiber lifestyle and those preaching a high-protein, low-carbohydrate approach is taking to the air this week, with a 30-second television commercial sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The committee...